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    Every morning, Stanford performs something akin to surgery.

    The human body isn’t made to sustain anything other than itself. Parasites must dig their way into skin, hooks and fangs suckling on warm flesh that squelches and tears in their grip. They squirm through tepid water until it gives way to the soft meat of a desperate tongue or hard bone of biting, hungry teeth. From there they feast on blood and tissue until they are satiated or the host is dead.

     

    (An academic retrospective on sick houses and starving parasites.)

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